MONSTER The Ofcial Newsletter of Franklin Key Club
Volume VI, Issue 4 August 2014
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Division 7 South | Region 16 | CNH District
Franklin High School 6400 Whitelock Parkway, Elk Grove, CA 95757
The The Ofcial Ofcial Newsletter Newsletter of of Franklin Franklin Key Key Club Club
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August 2014
Happy August Monsters!
Upcoming Events
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School is here, so it's time to get rolling right along with our lives. Work hard, study hard, and come to our meetings (First meeting 8/18 Make sure to come!!!!!), socials, and community service events! If you want help finding scholarships or studying groups in general, always remember that your fellow Key Clubbers are here for you in service, academics, and possibly even the future. That's about all I have to say.
Bulletin News
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Here's a promotion for an upcoming event I borrowed from Cindy Lam.
Editor's Message
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Creative Commons & Opinions
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Past Events
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Do you want to be on a game-show? Well there is no problem, you can easily be in one! The ROC Race (9/6/14) is an original game show-inspired 5k obstacle run featuring 12 crazy obstacles such as the WORLD'S LARGEST INFLATABLE WATER SLIDE! Who doesn't want to be a part of that race? Not to mention, Challenged Athletes Foundation* will donate $15 per volunteer to any group that provides 20+ volunteers. Be sure to sign up by August 30th!!!! *This foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life for people with physical disabilities through opportunities and support. Why not help them make the ROC race shine? Be sure to sign up!
In service and in friendship, Pauline Tze
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An excited Nommy monster indicates that a Key Club event is occurring that day! Check http://franklinkeyclub.freeforums.org frequently for more updates!
These events, which are linked, include: 8/1-8/29 Hot Summer Nights Concert (8/15, 8/22, 8/29) 8/16/14 Ice Cream Safari 8/23/14 Elk Grove Multicultural Festival 8/23/14 Soccer Event 8/24/14 Curtis Fest Artisan Festival 8/29/14-8/30/14 Chalk It Up! Festival 8/30/14-9/1/14 Gold Rush Days 9/6/14 ROC Race 9/6/14 K-Family Large Scale Workday 9/7/14 Food Allergy Walk 9/12/14 Franklin Elementary School Campout 9/13/14 ACC Nursing Home Fundraiser 9/14/12 Purple Stride
Challenge: Find a member who hasn't been very active and encourage them to go to an event with you!
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Member of the Month August’s Member of the Month is Alison Tom! As an incoming senior, her favorite key club event in all of her years is the annual A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Crystal Ice Cream Fantasy at Fairytale Town because “it has such a fun atmosphere and I enjoy making crafts with the children—plus eating ice cream in between!” Hence, she enjoys eating when she is not doing community service as well as enjoys swimming. Alison likes the “continued dedication to help out the community and fundraise with service projects” about Key Club the most and likes volunteering because “the feeling after all the effort put into helping out is the greatest moment of the day.”
Whenever a task coordinator is in need of more help, Alison confidently goes and helps. If her task is finished, she isn’t afraid to ask again what is needed of her. Although her goofy nature entertains fellow volunteers, she remains focused on Key Club's most important purpose which is service to the community. Congratulations Alison! Your incredible work is well respected! -Lesley Wong
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Top to Bottom: Alison Tom (left) helped at the Color Run; Alison Tom (right) helped out at Eppie's Great Race Both events occurred between July and August
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Creative Commons & Opinions
A huge thank you to Eileen Eto (top) and Jacob Hua (right) for their submissions!
**I highly encourage that you share your opinions and passion about our club, to the club! Articles are welcome, as well as creative forms of expression i.e. poetry, art, and comic strips. If you wish, pleaseSubmit by the 10th of the month you wish the content to be published in
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Past Events-HIGHLIGHT Kiwanis Family House Clean Up David Keet The Kiwanis Family House Clean Up (8/3) was an interesting experience; working together to wipe, broom, mop, pull weeds, and even cook our own lunch made such an unbreakable bond between us, the volunteers.
Eileen Eto
The Kiwanis Family House Clean Up was a unique event for me because rarely am I ever told to do things like vacuum or mop for service events. It was fun being able to help clean up and to find out about the noble things the Family House does. It was also pretty funny when we all tried to annihilate the weeds at the side of the family house because there were so many large ones! Clockwise (Top-Left-Right): David Keet and Pauline Tze prepare a mop to clean the kitchen and dining area; Kajal Maran weeds the exterior areas; Sunny Hsu cleans windows (Courtesy of Eileen Eto)
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Past Events (continued) Brides Against Breast Cancer
Left: Eileen Eto sorts and organizes wedding dresses Right: Joshua Diaz carries tarps over to cover dress racks (Courtesy of Pauline Tze and Eileen Eto respectively)
At Brides Against Breast Cancer (7/27), Franklin Key Clubbers worked with Key Clubbers from Division 7 North to organize dresses, protect the racks with tarp, and load all materials used in the event into a truck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We got to see all kinds of incredibly expensive wedding dresses and sort through them. I ended up drowning in a sea of white dresses and blue tarps several times! Overall, this was a really unique and fun experience and I'm happy I signed up for this service event." -Eileen Eto
Hot Summer Nights Concert Today (8/1) we helped kids in the obstacle course and lead them out of it. It was fun but exhausting. Overall I had a decent time at my first community service event and will definitely be signing up for more. -Irene Dich
Eileen Eto (left) and Irene Dich (right) supervise the obstacle course bounce houses to ensure the children's safety (Courtesy of Irene Dich and Eileen Eto respectively)
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Past Events (continued) Color Run Left to Right: Jennifer Tham and Pauline Tze unpackage KIND bars; Alison Tom shoots yellow cornstarch at runners. (Courtesy of Alison Tom)
The Color Run (8/2) was fabulous. My brother and I were two of the special three people who were assigned to help pass out KIND bars. We had fun opening up boxes of them with Alison Tom and Jennifer Tham until they had to leave to throw yellow cornstarch at people. (Lovely right?) Later, I found out that each of those boxes we opened was probably worth $100 each. Who knew energy bars could be so expensive! The perks of handing out food include hearing wonderfully punny phrases like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, you are
too KINDâ&#x20AC;? and "KIND bars from KIND people, how sweet!" However, the job wasn't any cleaner than the colored cornstarch throwers; I got nailed in the eye with white powder from behind! (Ouch). Luckily, I was carrying a bottle of water that the KIND lady gave me. By the end of the race, there were no KIND bars left. I'd say we did a pretty awesome job. Afterwards, we went to help Albert Le and the other people from Pleasant Grove hand out water bottles to people. It was a pretty fun day!!! -Pauline Tze
The Color Run was super fun. Even though I wasn't that stoked to get the color yellow in the beginning, it turned out to be amazing because we got to brighten up the runners' shirts by the time they got to us! Plus the corn starch felt like clouds. It was really cool to see people of all ages running together; it was definitely the Happiest 5k on the Planet! -Jennifer Tham
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Thank you for Reading!
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